1837-1
A middle-aged Christian Scientist was told she had been among the princesses of Egypt. Influenced by Joseph’s teachings, she devoted herself to teaching the lower caste, or classes.
. . . the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there was the understanding gained by the ministrations and activities in the days when Joseph ruled in that land. The entity then was among the princesses of Egypt, and of that king who made for the establishing of that closer relationship to those who had chosen to serve the living God, rather than to serve their own selves.
For the entity was acquainted with and oft associated with Joseph, the incarnation of Him whom the entity later served so well in Thessalonica! There the entity gained through the experiences in aiding those who were of the low degree or caste to become acquainted with the forces and powers that brought the greater comprehension and activities of the people in that sojourn.
Hence we will find in the present experience a lesson in the life of Joseph that is nowhere else gained in the writing of the Old Testament.
Then the entity was in the name Zerlva.
In the present application of self in respect to the lessons, the innate forces gained there, it is seen that there are the abilities to question with those who are seeking here and there for a greater comprehension of what the experience in materiality is all about—that which will give them, as then, an insight into the fact that it is the practice of the principle of patience that gives the development. For as He gave, “In patience ye become aware of your souls.”
1825-1
A follow-up reading for this entity supplies another page in Edgar Cayce’s story of the Old Testament:
Mrs. Cayce: You will have before you the life existence in the earth plane of [1825] . . . and the earthly existence of this entity in Egypt as Zerlva, a princess of the king’s household that established closer relationship to those who had chosen to serve the living God. You will also give a fuller explanation of the entity’s experience there, and of her associations with Joseph and the knowledge of the truth and accomplishments gained there . . .
Mr. Cayce: In those periods when there had been the raising of Joseph from the keeper in the prison to a place of authority close to the king, then the entity—Zerlva—was a princess of the second wife of the King of Egypt in that period. His name is given here in the Exodus itself.
The entity in those periods was acquainted with the family of Joseph’s wife; and thus became a worshiper of the one God.
After the famine and the restoration of the princess and the princes of Egypt, and the high priests of the various groups or cults, the entity then interested self in the activities of those peoples that sought gold and silver, and the gems that became a part of the regalia of the princess and prince of the Egyptian people, and that became a part of those things sought that were loaned to the children of Israel when they went out of Egypt. [Genesis 15:14; Exodus 3:21-22, 12:35–36]
This early period, though, was some several hundred years before this gold was turned to the Israelites by the Egyptians. But it was a portion of this same gold that was loaned to the children of Israel when they were led out.
The princess cared for those records that were kept for the peoples during that period, and became one loved not only by her own people but by the sages or older members of the household of the children of Israel. For it was the Israelites that the entity used for or entrusted with the activity of the mining of its holdings in the upper portion, or the southernmost portion of Egypt, in the hills and the mountains there.
1825-2
The city of Heliopolis—or On—was a great Egyptian center of culture and learning. Joseph married the daughter of the high priest of this city, and thus was in a position to be exposed to and represent the very best in the arts and schooling of this flourishing civilization. This city later became known as Alexandria. A teen-age Jewish girl was told in her reading that she had been the daughter of the high priest, and wife of Joseph:
. . . the entity was in the land now known as Egypt, when there were those turmoils that arose with those activities just before the periods of the famines in the land.
There the entity was that one whom Joseph chose as the companion, of all the peoples that were a part of his experience—the daughter of the high priest of Heliopolis.
Thus we find that the entity came under those tenets, those truths which were so much a part of her companion.
In the experience the entity gained throughout; in the abilities to make adjustments for the peoples of various beliefs, various activities—that brought peace and harmony throughout the sojourn in that land.
With the entrance of Joseph’s father, the entity then—Asenath—studied what had been a part of the customs of the early patriarchs—Isaac, Abraham—who had been those who had brought such satisfaction, such an awareness.
Hence, as has been first indicated, the deep convictions of the spirit as may make alive in materiality are innate in this entity; and, with deep meditation, these may be aroused to mental and material activity in the entity’s relationship to others—as a helpful influence to all.
2444-1
Everyone who came in contact with Joseph was influenced by him. With the arrival of Jacob in Egypt, carrying with him the legends and teachings of his ancestors, perhaps Pharaoh and others began to realize the real source of Joseph’s abilities. An elderly Protestant widow was told she had been in Pharaoh’s household during the time of Joseph. The reading speaks of a new teaching, or understanding, introduced to the people.
. . . the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were those uprisings, when the activities and changes were wrought by the entrance and the raising of Joseph to position in the land.
The entity then was of the household of Pharaoh, who brought things to pass by the activities in that land. Thus we find the acquaintance with a new religious force, the new undertakings by peoples, and the variations between the spirit of an activity and the reality in physical manifestation (which is so seldom understood), or between the corporal and the spiritual.
In that experience the entity made manifest much of judgment, much of kindness, much of patience, and brought those activities that made for the greater expression, greater expansion, greater understanding through those trying periods of those peoples.
The name then was Tekla. The entity rose in authority and in power, and throughout the period of its experience in all the earth there were economic, social, religious developments for all those peoples.
In the present we find that power, might—by position, by association—should never be abused, but used to
